Join the Hilltopper Family

Can you see yourself making a positive impact at WKU? We offer an inviting and challenging work environment, responsive to the needs of a diverse and ambitious learning community. See our open faculty and staff positions. Employment Website.

Global Issues in Ghana

Join our team as we explore the amazing bio and cultural diversity of Ghana.

This program has been cancelled fro Summer 2015.

Program Description

This cross-disciplinary experience will explore the amazing biodiversity of Ghana
and become aware of the important conservation issues in this country and the rest
of West Africa AND broaden students' knowledge of social work issues and how these
are influenced by the cultural and socio-political context of Ghana, West Africa.

Highlights

6 credits offered

Diverse student population from various disciplines

Exposure to international university setting

Explore multiple areas in and observe extreme biodiversity

Learning Goals

Biology Program

Students will acquire a foundation in West African biodiversity, including ecosystems
and wildlife as well as the major agricultural crops.

They also will gain a knowledge and appreciation of conservation biology, including
aspects unique to this part of the world and all of Africa.

By the end of the course, students will gain an appreciation for and an understanding
of a culture very different than their own.

They will also gain writing and oral presentation skills.

The realities of the effect of politics and foreign influence on conservation in West
Africa will be understood via student observations and experience firsthand

Social Work Program

Demonstrate an understanding and ability to describe their total immersive experience
in Ghanaian Culture

Discuss, using the integrated-perspectives framework, their perspectives of Africa
and a contextual perspective of Ghana by systematizing reporting of reflections and
observations.

Think critically by using a cultural framework

Relate historical events, social justice, and relationship with the nature of Ghanaian
culture

Integrate the experience of Ghana into a coherent view of social policy, social justice,
and\ social work in that country.

Identify and develop strategies and skills to become involved in the global struggle
to protect\ human rights and lives as well as seek for careers in International Social
Work.